supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: colleagues you have before you and amended version of the resolution urging city college sf; i want to thank my colleagues but also trustees from the college board and community members for giving us lots of input as we brought it to the budget committee where it was amended with suggestions from supervisor avalos and -- advocates. those amendments are included in your version which came out of committee with unanimous support. i also want to say that city college is an incredible institution. some of the call at the heart of san francisco because so many of us are connected directly, like supervisor yee being a product and many of us having taking classes , or having had family members. it helps to transform lives and provides access to people from all backgrounds; for immigrants it has allowed them to learn english. for laid-off garment workers from chinatown to ancient, it has allowed them to get retraining so they can support . their families with better income . but it is really an amazing place many of us when we fought for the chinatown campus o

. >> president chiu: supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: i think it is wonderful to have a dialogue, and to add live on the points that supervisor campos made, another supervisor amniano (sounds like), who created the committee of education, in which i said on for years, there should be some way to them through the college board of trustees and that important decision-making , on the city level and i know our advisor to the mayor and education -- mendoza, sitting in the audience as well, i hope to work with many of you together to bring a working group on how to support the college system more especially . . in this time of crisis but in long-term i think that would be helpful discussion i want to say that the suggestions made by a few colleagues new amendments on this, supervisor kim's suggestion for page 2, line 24 which takes the sting out of the word "inflating" by replacing it with growing, i think that is a really good amendment. i will make a motion that we add that to the amendments. and added the suggestion of supervisor wiener and chiu, to address the concern raised by wiener a

he came to washington, d.c., to announce his own plans for mars. he wants to play husband-and- wife team over the planet in 2018. he has yet to acquire a rocket, living so, or enough funds, like mars one, and he cannot guarantee the happy couple will not get skin cancer, disappear forever, or burn up on reentry to earth. but at least he is planning to try to bring them back.

supervisor mar? mar present. supervisor tang? tang present. supervisor wiener? wiener present. supervisor yee? yee present. mr. president, all members are present. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, before we do the pledge of allegiance, i'd like to ask that we take a moment to recognize the victims of yesterday's boston marathon tragedy. [moment of silence] >> thank you very much. and ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> colleagues, we have our march 12, 2013 board meeting minutes. could i have a motion to approve those minutes? motion by supervisor campos, seconded by supervisor breed. without objection, those meeting minutes are adopted. [gavel] >> madam clerk, do we have any communications? >> there are no communications, mr. president. >> and if you could read our consent agenda. >> items 1 through 14 are considered routine. if a member objects, an item may b

i want to thank supervisors mar -- supervisor mar for his kind comments, and supervisor avalos for fine reading of a wonderful poem and the haiku to the mayor during question time which i saw. and all the supervisors for considering that the legacy of san francisco in a way depends upon the continuation of the legacy of the poetry arts in san francisco. also to my fellow poets and other kind comments and contributions today, and to the laureate alejandro magia, i poem today is a third of the traditional trip let of haikus that form a traditional haiku, just a small one, written after i read the agenda. public interest. the winds and blossoms of spring have no lobbyists. one more time. public interest. the winds and blossoms of spring have no lobbyists. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> hello, good afternoon. my name is douglas [speaker not understood]. just for the record, the sacred heart teams were staring at you. i did notice all 11 of you were properly seated and looking, looking like you were paying attention. so, thank you for doing that. just for the record, i

: mar -- where you fall on the political spectrum? supervisor mar: definitely strong support for small businesses. some have said that in a progressive, and though i do not like the term to much because i think it always boxes in, i have always considered myself as having progressive politics because i believe in a vision where people have their needs met. i believe in equity. when people have special needs, we should be considerate of that. i also feel that working families and the lowest income populations should have a safety net. we should have human rights and equality and civil rights for people as well. i am very proud of being a progressive. >> what do you think are some of the biggest issues facing san francisco? >> right now, there are so many people out of work the local hiring and jobs and creation of new jobs, whether it is in a high-tech economy with twitter and other types of work force issues moving forward and businesses moving forward to creation of construction that local residents have a good shot at jobs. the john

. >> supervisor mar. >> thank you. colleagues, there's a simple typographical error so i'd like to urge you to support the amended version that's in front of all of you. and this simply pro claims san francisco's 2013 as the year of the child in coordination with many different statewide organizations from the first five commission to the california state association of counties, which i am the rep to. so, i urge your support. thank you. and support for the amendment and as amended as well. >> colleagues, supervisor mar has made a motion to amend his resolution. can i have a second to that? seconded by supervisor campos. and if we can take that motion amended without objection, that should be the case. and on the underlying resolution as amended, madam clerk, can you call the roll? >> supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervis

the first civilization on mars. i have an update for you. as of today, they are taking applicants for the astronauts who will take this one-way trip to mars and be the first settlers on mars. what you have to do is go online, up load a one minute video about why you would be the perfect person to be one of the first settlers on mars and to make sure people are serious, you have to pay a $25 entry fee. they are going to narrow it down to 24 individuals separated into teams of four to start the rigorous training process. the plan is to have them on mars by 2023. they hope to have a worldwide television internet phenomenon. a reality show, if you will, from the moment they take off until they land on mars. this is going to be a $6 billion project. people want to say it's a one way ticket. it's not about getting there and back. once you have akelcclimatkelecc mars, you cannot come back. >> you become a martian. >>> going to see a sea turtle up close would be an amazing experience. that's what happened to people vacation

supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution is adopted as amended. madam clerk, could you go to our imperative agenda and do we have any items today? >> we do, mr. president. we have 2013 as the year of the child in san francisco. >> we have a founding as well as the brown act finding -- >> mr. president, mr. president, please excuse my interruption. that was not the imperative item. that was the item -- >> tia margarita. >> yes. it was a resolution declaring 2013 as it a margarita day. in the city and county of san francisco. >> colleagues, we have the resolution described by the clerk purely recommendtry brown act finding. supervisor mar made a resolution to adopt the resolution. second that, seconded by supervisor campos. is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you read the in memoriams? >> yes, mr. president. today's meeting will be

president mccarthy, mar, here, commissioner lee, here, mccray, present, melgar here, and commissioner- is excuse. >> because of time restriction here we would like to propose some changes to the agenda and move them to the next full meetings. >> yes. >> what i'm suggesting is formula retail in the upper market ncd proposed planning commission policy that would establish a methodology for determining the concentration of formula retail and set the appropriate level of concentration for formula retail in the upper market neighborhood nct and ncd. preliminary recommendation: adoption -- seven and the dbi. i recommend we continue that to the next full commission meeting. >> could i go go ahead and second on that. >> thank you. those items seven, eight and 9 will be continued to the next meeting and mccarthy you are okay with that. you indicated that you are okay with that. i received a note that you are okay with continuing that. >> yes. that one i'm okay to continue with it. i don't have a real detailed update. >> we can talk on the side about that. >> okay. so that would be what item? >

supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: thank you for your hard work and for routing for our sports team as well. as a longtime immigrant activist myself, this is a question for the language equality according to census, 40% of seven siskins are foreign-born and city residents speak more than 28 different language is. our city land which access ordinance has been in effect since 2009 after many immunity organizations . advocated for it the ordinance make sure that various needs of the diverse language population are served yet i and others are aware from feedback that our city departments still struggle to meet the san francisco's diverse needs. i particularly concern of the first responders and tier 1 the pardons of whether they are in compliance. i would like to know what your offices doing that the requirements of the language ordinance are fully met in the spirit of language equality in our city. >> mayor lee: thank you supervisor you and i agree on the importance of making sure that all of our communications is a city especially those of the first respondents meet the language each of

my wife grew up on --el camino del mar. her parent have lived there for 40 years. they were not able to be here. we have dinner at their house every week and i'm quite familiar with the area. milton myers built this house. as it's been mentioned the property is on an upslope, while it's a single story residence, it's all around the lengthy front footage of the property giving a sweeping view from every room from 2 bedrooms, living room, dining room and kitchen. the neighbors don't object to the project sponsors improving their property, they would like to see them do so in a way that if it meets their needs. they do object modifying in a way that takes away from the historic property and in mpinges on the mid block open space. as soon as the property went on the market prior to the death of the own, the neighbors listed to the broker that they would object that this development to the project plate applicants are now proposing that they would oppose this. the dr applicants would like to work with the sponsors to develop a plan that will satisfy their needs and be a

mars 1 wants s ts to accepteds astronauts to mars in 2023.makif it. the finalists will go through seven years of train, spend months living in a replicated mars colony. unfortunately, it will be a one-way trip. apparently once you go to mars for any length of time, you can't come back to earth because you wouldn't be able to withstand our final gravity. they got their first official video application today. i know it's only the first one, but i think they found the guy they should put at the top of the list. >> hi. i'm gary bucci. that's my name. and i'm going to mars because i've been there before. and i collect rocks and spicy pictures from outer space. you feel that? stop swinging. this is the planet i was bornze it's just great. it's great being here. i don't let anything get me down because i'm positive. if you're not positive, don't go to mars. because when you find yourself eating part of your calf muscle, you should not be on mars. once again, this is gary bucci. i'm signing on for mars. and you will see me again. >> jimmy: he will be our gene

>> aye. >> mar? >> mar, absent. >> and commissioner tang in >> aye. >> weiner >> aye. >> yee, yee absent. item passes. >> very good. our next item please. >> three, this chair's report this san information item. >> okay, good morning, colleagues, i would like to commend everyone who participated and took part in the nation's first walk to workday. held last friday april 12th and i want to congratulate the individuals and organization to help this become a great event i was not able to participate that day due to a slight family emergency, but it is a great chance to encourage people to walk for all sorts of good reasons, your helpth and the environment and it is the opportunity to highlight all of the work that needs to be done to insure that there are safe and attractive walking routes in every neighborhood city wide. i have been really encouraged by the members of this body who have been taking up a lot of effort around the pedestrian safety as well. >> mayor yee took this advantage to release the

mars 1 estimates the price tag for four people in mars about $6 billion. would totally recommend you for this trip. >> is that right. i don't want to be the first on that one. i'd like to be the second group. let them work out the kinks a little bit. >> let them see how it is. >> yeah. >> wouldn't that be cool? >> it would be incredible. >> you would be so isolated. >> that we can even think about going to mars, that's fascinating. >> doesn't feel like mars out there today though. >> it is getting hot! more like mercury out there now. we have a lot of sunshine and temperatures heating up outside. should be a beautiful afternoon as those temperatures soaring near 90 degrees in some of the valleys. even out at the coast michelle, 60s and 70s. how about that? >> that's good. i think you should cream after ve a gat afternoon. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com ron: years ago i made a promise to provide the best for my family, in sickness and in health. carol and i needed help figuring out what's covered by medicare and what's not. so we

supervisor mar. >> thank you. colleagues, today in light of the devastating events at the boston marathon, i'm calling for a hearing on how our city is prepared to prevent similar occurrences from happening here at our numerous marathons, large open public events, and other civic activities. as you're aware, san francisco is host to dozens of world class events, some large scale concerts in golden gate park, yacht races. many of these events occur in district 1, but all of our districts are impacted by some way. the purpose of the hearing is to ensure that our residents -- to ensure our residents that we have adequate safety and emergency response measures in place and plan as well, and to allay any fears that may have arisen as a result of the bombings in boston. and again, condolances and -- condolances to the families and many that were injured as well. i have complete confidence in our law enforcement agencies and yet it is always a good idea to review and refine our strategies and raise public awareness and c

supervisor mar. mar no. supervisor tang. tang no. supervisor wiener. wiener no. supervisor yee? yee no. there are 11 no's. >> the ordinance has failed. [gavel] >> item 26. >> item 26 is a resolution determining the issuance of a type 22 on sale beer and wine premises license located at 54 3 2nd street will serve the public convenience. >> roll call. >> on item 26, supervisor avalos? avalos aye. supervisor breed? breed aye. supervisor campos? campos aye. supervisor chiu? chiu aye. supervisor cohen? cohen aye. supervisor farrell? farrell aye. supervisor kim? kim aye. supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. supervisor yee? yee aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> item 27. >> item 27 is a resolution determining that the issuance of a type 21 off-sale general license for fm smokes and wines located at 57 new montgomery street will serve the public convenience. >> can we do this same house same call, colleagues? without objection, this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> item 28. >> item 28 is a resolution determinin

but because of the curve line on --el camino and del mar. that could never be parallel to the front of the lot. as a technical matter, this section doesn't really apply and the way the rear yard is calculated is discretionary. and it's discretionary the department should apply the rear yard calculation in the way that best fulfills the policy code and the residential design guidelines. a two story structure completely occupying a rear yard cannot comply with residential design guidelines. that's what we have in this instance. we have a 2 story garage structure that is going to be expanded which violates this policy. so that the non-compliant uses expands to occupy more of the lot at different levels is an interpretation which i think flies in the face of discretionary measurement of the rear yard and if you look at the second page of our exhibit, 8, if you imply the interpretation you have 2 different ways you can configure this rear yard so that the goals of requiring some open space on this lot are met. and that rear yard can go down to th

on mars by 2023. applicants are being accepted from countries all over our planet. the mars one co-founder and chief executive officer was in shanghai to talk about the project. he says for now this is a one-way trip. >> it is really my dream, my ambition to take humans to mars. this is just the only way. and if a return mission becomes available, then i think we will also implement it for people who want to. >> that's a big if. >> yeah, it is. >> he went on to say he believes it could take up to 30 years before they'll be able to fly someone back to planet earth. >> that's something you really need to consider before you hop on that plane. >> yeah. >> rocket. >>> it was a gorgeous day. a hard day today to leave this lovely planet. >> absolutely. we had almost every type of climate you could want. 60s on the coast with some sunshine. cool conditions. 90s inland. let's take you outside right now, give you a sample of the microclimates around the bay area right now. san francisco, free of the low clouds

. >> chair farrell: supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: thank you, mr. wagner, for the great presentation. i wanted to ask you about the good news in the last slide. could you explain a little more the 19 million that may come into our general fund through the igt program for seniors and people with disabilities transitioning. >> sure. so under the medi-cal waiver, the state's medicaid waiver, there was a provision to transfer seniors and persons with disabilities from fee-for-service into managed care. so basically instead of getting paid a certain amount when somebody comes into our hospital for a day, we get paid a flat month -- flat amount per person per month. so we -- the reimbursement structure has changed. as we've implemented that change, and as we've done analysis, and this is for san francisco, but also statewide, of the impacts of that change, it turns out that the reimbursement under the new managed care model is less than counties had been receiving for the -- under the fee for service payment model. so the counties and the public hospitals

as we are getting prepared for the 20 '30s to take humans all the way to mars, to take cargo to mars that could precede the humans. and tell about how this is going to be a new opportunity for commercial involvement. >> senator, that's an outstanding question. if you look at the opportunities in space, i think we have too often thought of space as a very niche place. where only very few people can go at this point in the game. i think we have to change again and look at a marketplace, much as the way thomas jefferson looked across the united states and what the potential economically would be for the nation some 250 years ago. so if we look at in that context and you look at something such as an outpost, such as outpost on the moon, following up on the what general stafford mention. not only when an outpost like a good opportunity for new wealth creation, mining of minerals have been placed on the moon, and then even on asteroids later on for thousands of years it could be mined for various uses, helium three for example, for energy production which i know you're familiar with, is on

he envisions a fly-by round trip journey to mars when mars and earth are at their closest in 2018.married couple, husband and wife who can cram each other for cramped 501 days it will take to get there and back. he is counting on government support to launch thed a -- launch the adventure. another would call to spend 80,000 people to mars at $400,000 ahead. mars one, dutchman plan is a gritty approach. one-way trip. you to be willing to die there. to endure the cold atmosphere, packing serious radiation. the solar winds and storms, the loneliness. silence. maybe not silence since the project will be broadcast as a tv reality show 24 hours a day. the sponsors say thousands are already applying. writers say just how suitable old people would be for such a trip. come to think of it, perhaps mars travel isn't really the answer. not if the multitude already lining up. it's beginning to sound like cancun or disney land. everything and everyone you want to leave behind may soon be on the way there. some years ago before the world became so global you wanted to scream,be a famous columnist

commissioner mar? >> present. >> yee? present. we have a quorum. >> i'd like to thank nona melkonian and jesse larsen for televising us today. we have 8 items on the agenda this morning. could you please call item number 1? item 2. >> right. item number 2, approve the minutes of the march 19, 2013 meeting. this is an action item. >> seeing no comments, colleagues, let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we move this forward without objection? >> so moved. >> thank you. [gavel] >> please call the next aye tim, ms. cheng. >> item 3 is citizens advisory committee report. this is a information item. >> thank you. i don't see mr. flanagan here -- oh. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> items 4 and 5 passed unanimously. for the item 6, the cac unanimously adopted a motion for support of recommending designated of lead of agencies at its march 27 meeting. the cac was briefed on information about item 7. that c

supervisor mar? mar aye. supervisor tang? tang aye. supervisor wiener? wiener aye. there are 11 ayes. >> the ordinances are finally passed. item 4. >> time 4 is an ordinance appropriating surplus revenues, expenditures, city reserve for state revenue loss and general fund reserve of approximately 45 million to support shortfalls at the san francisco general hospital and laguna honda hospital for fiscal years 2012 through 13. >> supervisor farrell. >> thank you, president chiu. colleagues, this is the second supplemental that we've seen in budget and finance committee in the last few months. the first was the public defenders and we're going to have our share for the department for another supplemental tomorrow. unlike those departments, however, this doesn't require two-thirds vote. it passed unanimously with the addition of taking harvey rose's recommended reductions of 1.2 million. but it is $38 million overall and the general fund hit is going to be a little over $12 million. this is something that we're obviously not excited about having, but it is a long-term s